On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Gary Dale <garyd...@rogers.com> wrote: > Christian PERRIER wrote: >> >> Quoting Gary Dale (garyd...@rogers.com): >> >> >>> >>> Now perhaps I'm missing something, but I have no trouble with users >>> mounting nfs shares. The idea that users can't mount cifs shares >>> strikes me as odd and an unnecessary impediment. >>> >> >> How about turning the binary we provide in Debian to setuid on the >> systems where you want it to be this way, by using >> dpkg-statoverride(8)? >> > > Actually, I was just responding to Nico's assertion that disabling setuid is > a seatbelt. The idea that mounting shares should be restricted to root is, > imho, a cure that is worse than the disease. :)
It's safer *default* behavior. If you want non-root users to be able to mount, you can create a table of mounting options in auto.master or in another auto.cifs file that will translate the mounting options into something available to users, with wildcards to allow access to alternative servers or shares. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
